Everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes, and calls it biblical theology. In a situation so fluid it is necessary to state and justify what one means by ‘biblical theology’ before analysing its relation to systematic theology. Exegesis Barr has pointed out that in contemporary usage ‘biblical theology’ is largely contrastive: i.e. a substantial part of the definition, on any reading, is taken up with explaining how biblical theology is not exegesis, is not systematic theology, is